{"id":2285003,"date":"2024-06-27T23:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fends-off-convicted-felon-label-at-first-presidential-debate-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:42:34","slug":"trump-fends-off-convicted-felon-label-at-first-presidential-debate-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fends-off-convicted-felon-label-at-first-presidential-debate-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fends off \u2018convicted felon\u2019 label at first presidential debate &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-fends-off-convicted-felon-label-at-first-presidential-debate-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a presidential debate, former President Donald Trump\u2063 and President Joe Biden engaged in a contentious exchange regarding Trump&#8217;s recent felony conviction\u2063 in New York. \u2064Trump, the first former president convicted\u2064 of a felony related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payments<\/a>, tried to shift focus by\u200b accusing Biden of \u200ctargeting political opponents and \u200balleged injustice in the legal system. Biden, in \u2064response, highlighted Trump&#8217;s conviction during the debate, \u200ccalling him a\u2062 &#8220;convicted felon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden criticized Trump further over his actions \u200drelated to the\u2064 January 6th Capitol riot, questioning his commitment to the Constitution. Trump countered by deflecting questions about the riot and his willingness to accept the\u2062 2024 election \u200bresults. The debate marked a\u2064 significant clash with each candidate focusing\u200c heavily on the legal controversies surrounding Trump, amid the broader\u2063 context of their campaigns for \u2063the presidency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> attempted to blunt President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> invoking the former president\u2019s conviction in New York as the two sparred in their Thursday presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who last month became the first former president to be convicted of a felony in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a>, was also the first candidate to reference the four legal cases against him as he fights to win a second term in the Oval Office. Despite the Biden campaign using that conviction to campaign against his opponent in recent weeks, Biden waited until around 45 minutes into the debate to call him a \u201cconvicted felon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Joe Biden, right, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-employees-increasingly-worried-about-their-job-security-after-wave-of-exits\/\" title=\"CNN Employees Increasingly Worried About Their Job Security After Wave of Exits\">presidential debate hosted<\/a> by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo\/Gerald Herbert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe only person on this stage who is a convicted felon is the man I\u2019m looking at tonight,\u201d Biden said to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump returned Biden\u2019s comment by saying Biden\u2019s \u201cson is a convicted felon at a very high level,\u201d citing his gun trial in Delaware, and warned Biden that he \u201ccould be a convicted felon with all of the things that he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on, at around 20 minutes into the debate, Trump broached his own legal woes when he said the United States had become a \u201cthird world\u201d country due to the \u201cweaponization\u201d of justice against him, accusing Biden of \u201cgoing after political opponents.\u201d The White House denies the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has voiced vehement outrage against a \u201ctwo-tiered\u201d justice system since his conviction by a Manhattan jury last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star in the final weeks of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The former president was able to speak more freely about his legal woes Thursday night given that New York Acting Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3055308\/trump-legal-pundits-praise-judge-merchan-blast-cannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juan Merchan<\/a> on Tuesday lifted some of the restrictions against him. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3058444\/merchan-partially-lifts-trumps-gag-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>revised gag<\/a> order now allows him to criticize the trial witnesses and the jury, though the candidates did not dig very deep into the minutia of the recent criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who also faces a federal indictment accusing him in part of rallying his supporters to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an effort to illegitimately overturn the 2020 election results, was asked by moderator Jake Tapper about the riot just before the first commercial break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs president, you swore an oath to, \u2018preserve, protect and defend\u2019 the Constitution. What do you say to voters who believe that you violated that oath through your actions and inaction on January 6th and worry that you\u2019ll do it again?\u201d Tapper asked.<\/p>\n<p>Trump deflected the question, saying, \u201cOn January 6, we had a great border,\u201d in reference to the immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Trump was asked twice whether he would commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, but he did not directly answer. When pressed a third time, Trump said he would accept the results if it was conducted \u201cfairly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo indictments, no political opponents stuff, because it\u2019s the only way he thinks he can win,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York conviction did not bog down Trump in the context of the debate, in part because much of the conversation surrounded policy debates and international matters such as the war in Ukraine and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how Trump\u2019s \u201clegal drama\u201d and criminal cases would affect public impressions during the debate, national security lawyer Bradley P. Moss told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>it was difficult to assess \u201cgiven how little they were mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the cases tied to what Trump did while president are anywhere close to going to trial yet, and his other cases were tied in to his pre-presidential conduct. You kind of have to assume the damage from that is baked in already,\u201d Moss said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On CNN, it is reported Democrats are thinking, &#8220;Biden&#8217;s performance was dismal\u2026 some of the conversations include should we go to the White House to ask the President to step aside.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gneaG5E2r\">pic.twitter.com\/8gneaG5E2r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unusual_whales\/status\/1806520720140452026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Post-debate commentators on CNN said the former president \u201clied too much.\u201d Meanwhile, anchor John King hammered Biden over his poor \u201cperformance\u201d throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s performance was dismal\u2026 some of the conversations include should we go to the White House to ask the president to step aside,\u201d he said of the initial reaction to the debate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Birle and Cami Mondeaux contributed to this report<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their presidential debate, former President Donald Trump countered President Joe Biden&#8217;s references to Trump&#8217;s recent felony conviction in New York. 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